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Anyone Ever Catch a MLB Foul Ball?

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Golferdow01 said:
Never did, but my friend did that I sat with once at an Injuns game.

BinMich...you are quite Thumpesque tonight starting all these threads :tongue2:
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What are you talking about, LoKY is thread-starting king of this forum, just check the stats at the bottom!

As of today, he's started 440 threads, 8.7% of the threads in this forum.
 
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LoKyBuckeye said:
Yeah but my threads are about news stories and stupid shit going on in the world.... I don't start threads like "which hand do you jerk off with, the left or the right" :) :wink:
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Anyone can find stories on the internet and link them to here.

It takes real talent to start threads such as, "What's your favorite brand of fertilizer."
 
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I have never actually caught a foul ball at a pro game, however I have acumulated a lot of memorabilia (balls, hats, bats mostly)from pro baseball games.

There are two ways we have been able to get so much stuff. Back in the early 80's when nobody went to Indians games, we would sit out by the bullpen (usually the visitors) and bullshit with the players all the time. They are almost always very cool if you are not an obnoxious asshole to the. Usually by the end of the game if we got along with them they would give us a few balls, or a batting glove or something. On some occasions there would be some bargaining going on. More than once we went and got hot dogs ( these guys actually have money on them in their uniforms) for them, and they would get us bats, one of my buddies even got an orioles warmup jacket one time.

The other way was at Wrigley field mid 90's. My friends architect firm had seats three rows off the wall right between the dugout and the backstop fence. The on-deck circle was literally 10 feet from us. By late in the season when nobody cared anymore you could sit there and bullshit with the guys in the on deck circle. We used to make up stories about sick nephews or relatives, give them one of our customers names and have them pass a ball or something around the dugout. They would do it all the time. We would then give the bat or ball to one of our customers and they would go crazy. Best customer retention program my company ever had.
 
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I never managed to snag a foul ball, but I did get one that was tossed into the stands at the end of an inning. Out in the low hanging seats in right field at Riverfront. Moises Alou tossed it up there, it bounced off the hands of the fellow in front of me and landed in my lap.
 
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I've got one from a Reds game when I was about 8 years old. The ball hit several rows in front of our and bounced under my seat.

3-4 years ago I was at an AFL2 game in Cincinnati. The lower bowl of the Gardens was fairly empty so we moved to seats down by the endzone. The QB over threw the WR in what actually looked like a perfect pass to me. That was a nice souveneir to take home.
 
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